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عنوان فارسی مقاله:
سیاست عمومی لاتین: اصلاحات مهاجرت، مشارکت سیاسی و قصد رای دادن
عنوان انگلیسی مقاله:
The politics of Latino publics: Immigration reform, political participation and intention to vote
سال انتشار : 2016
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2. Literature review
2.1. Theory: social identity theory Public relations publics can be categorized in many ways, and public relations practitioners engage in segmentation of publics (Kim & Krishna, 2013). In politics, segmentation of publics would be to identify potential voters and categorize them by common interests or identity. While discussions of publics often pertain to how publics define a problem, when applied to politics, the question at hand is: For whom should I vote? When examining Latino voters, social identity theory explains why Latinos may engage in voting or holding specific beliefs about the issue of immigration reform. Social identity theory refers to how individuals choose to categorize themselves among groups in society to gain a sense of self, become part of a group, or to enhance their identity (Capozza & Brown, 2000; Hogg, Terry & White, 1995). This, of course, includes the issue of identity abandonment as well. Social identity theory aims to explain how social categorization has implications for intergroup behavior (Capozza & Brown, 2000). Social identity is thought to be mutable, meaning that it varies by context. In the context of voting, social identity could vary based on a sense of one’s ethnic identity and political affiliations, as well as other factors (Abrams, 1996). Therefore, the relationship for how Latinos identify as less or more acculturated in U.S. society may affect how they feel about politics. Thus, for public relations professionals, it is important to understand how level of acculturation may influence political attitudes and behaviors. What follows is an overview of select factors that may influence how Latinos vote. 2.2. Latinos and politics 2.2.1. Political interest and political participation According to a Pew Research Center analysis of data from the 2013 American Community Survey, about three-quarters of Latinos are U.S. citizens, with the highest percentage of U.S. citizens being Puerto Rican, Spanish, Cuban and Mexican (López & Patten, 2015). While the news media and political strategists have talked about the influence of the “Latino Vote,” the power of the Latino vote has not been realized as strongly as observers might expect. Some researchers have attributed this lack of influence to the geographic concentration of Latino communities in states that tend to vote Democratic, such as California and New York. They suggest this geographic concentration blunts their impact except in battleground states like Florida (Cave, 2016). Furthermore, Latinos that reside in places like the Midwest, or more rural areas where there is comparatively less concentration, Latinos may have less potential to affect election outcomes. In these areas, Latinos may lack access to news media that would provide information encouraging Latinos to get politically involved (Fowler, Hale, & Olsen, 2009). Moreover, researchers have found that news media in communities with a larger proportion of illegal immigrants were less likely to address Latino political interests. Thus, political participation by Latinos may be tempered by their lack of access to political information, and perhaps, by living in communities where they feel less welcome to participate in community life. Others have reasoned that a lower participation among Latinos is due to their younger age. Similarly, as across other racial and ethnic groups, young people are less likely to vote compared to other age groups. For instance, data from the 2012 Current Population Survey shows that Latinos 18 to 29 years old were among the least likely to vote, with a reported 36.9% turnout rate (López & Gonzalez-Barrera, 2013). That is lower than the overall 48% of eligible Latinos who voted in 2012 and 66% of African Americans. Latinos who are college graduates and are of Cuban origin are most likely to vote (López & Gonzalez-Barrera, 2013). Political participation has often been associated with additional factors, such as level of acculturation, which is closely tied to language use. Less acculturated Latinos identify as using Spanish more than English, and prefer Spanish-language media (Salzman, 2014). Language is a more easily gathered substitute measure for a rather complex concept that encompasses other dimensions, such as self and social identity, attitudes towards the host culture, the stress related to acculturation, a person’s personality and how they think through information (Berry, 1980). Acculturation is increasingly viewed as a multidimensional concept that takes into account not only attitudes towards the culture a person grew up in, but also how the person views the new culture in their situational context (Cabassa, 2003).
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